Spa Birthday

It's hard to believe how quickly time passes.  It seems only last year I was making Avery's 10th birthday cake and here we are already on the 13th! 

How quickly they grow up!

Avery was having a "spa" themed party.  I think the girls were getting facials and having their nails done. 

When she was coming up with ideas for cakes, she found one with cucumbers and said hers needed to have cucumbers!

This cake is 100% edible. 

The "face" is a chocolate mold, the face cream is pink buttercream and the cucumbers and towel are made from fondant!

Happy 13th Birthday Avery! 

Dora and Boots

Dora and Boots!

What a perfect pair!  I have done many Dora cakes over the years and I try and make each one unique.

Dora and Boots are a FBCT placed on the cake after the background was done in buttercream and crushed graham crackers!

Let's Talk Turkey

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

This is the cake I made for the celebration at my DH's work.

I just love his expression and the eyebrows....forget about it!!!!

Here is a side view, you can see his wings.  This cake is all buttercream with modeling chocolate wings, tail feathers, head and feet.

I'm thankful to have such great blogging friends!

Chipper Jones Fan Birthday

3D cakes are fun to make!

Here is the classic baseball atop grass with team logos.

Gage is a big fan of #10 Chipper Jones, so I added the jersey and Chipper's autograph to the ball!

Daisy Cake Tutorial

You may have seen the 3D daisy cake I did a few weeks ago.  When I received a request for another one, I thought I would take pictures to show you how I turned a 2 layer 12" round cake into a 3D daisy!

So first imagine the crumb coated cake as round....

Then I measured the circumference around the outer edge to determine how large each section should be.

Once I mark out each section, I cut a small triangle on each line and turn the triangle piece around to make the tip of each petal.

Here is the top view of the triangles.

Then use buttercream to attach the pieces and fill in the gaps.  I had to trim the tips off the very ends since my board wasn't quite large enough.

Again, this is the top view.

And here is Ella's Ladybug Daisy Cake!

I used a different design and different colors for this design....you know how I don't like to do the EXACT cake more than once!

This could definitely work for a snowflake or any other kind of multi petal flower!

Watch Out!!! 40 Looks Like CHUM!!!

A fun and unique 40th celebration. 

Shannon is the coach for the Lady Sharks and they wanted to get him a shark related 40th birthday.

Most 40th birthday themes play on the fact that you are OLD, or Over the Hill. 

So in the realm of sharks, we went with circling sharks and stating the fact that when you're 40....you're CHUM!

Here is a close up of "Shannon" in the water and the circling shark fins.  I gave them "trails" in the "water" to help demonstrate the motion.

This is a close up view of what the sharks look like!

This is another side view.





Everyone was delighted with the cake.

Hope it was a FABULOUS party!

I get a KICK out of you!

Soccer cookies.

Simple enough right?

There is no symmetry when you are hand piping with no guidelines.....but I think that makes them look more realistic.....or 3 dimensional......

Right????

All wrapped up and ready to go!

I get a "kick" out of soccer ball cookies!

Fisherman's 70th Birthday

Making the exact same cake more than once....not really what I would choose to do.

But then again, getting a chance to do something similar, gives me a chance to improve my technique!

I'm guessing there are a lot of dad's and grandpa's out there that like to fish, so when they see the first cake I did with this theme, they want one just like it.

Different size cakes, different details.....different cake!

(It just looks a lot like that other one!)

I love all these MILESTONE cakes!